The Z-woman Arc

Written by Tanith 04-25-2002 11:29 AM

Tanith waited patiently at the main gate of the Asgardian palace. After two successive battles against the evil mirror duplicates of herself and a friend, she was ready for some serious downtime, and leave the next battle(s) to the others. It was in HALST's job description, after all, not hers.

Maybe it was time to indulge in a few personal fantasies. (No, not *those* kinds, you perverts.)

She was waiting now for Jaffa, who intended to travel with her as a bodyguard. Genma and Z-man were both leaving for Khazan on Nobody's Correllian Corvette. Brief and Ramz had their own methods of transportation.

Jaffa's approach from inside the building broke Tanith out of her thoughts.

Jaffa: Check this out!

Tanith: *stares blankly* Wha?

Jaffa: *points* My new shadow!

Tanith: *blinks* Oh... so that's what you wanted to talk to Thor about?

Jaffa: Yep. Nice huh? He took bits of shadows from each the honored dead and made this one for me.

Tanith: Will the fact they come from lots of previous hosts be a problem?

Jaffa: Nope. Thor assured me that he cleansed it of previous mental ressonances. Besides, even if it did have some kind of influence, my Mind Shield would've protected me anyway.

Tanith: Ah. Nice. Are you ready to leave now?

Jaffa: *whips out sunglasses and puts them on* Ready to roll.

With that, Tanith activated her transponder to the Andromeda. With a bare shimmer, the two disappeared from the surface of Asgard.

Soon, the Andromeda could be seen breaking off from its normal orbit, then speeding up before vanishing into the slip stream.

Written by Nobody 04-25-2002 02:10 PM

DOH!! I didn't get to go with Tanith... Darn...

Genma, Z-man. Heading back for Khazan? I'll give you a lift... *the three of them appear on the bridge of Nobody's Corvette*

After the feast the Watcher offered to drop the Avengers off back at their mansion. It was the least he could do, being both a fan and a reserve member. After making sure the heroes got home, he decided to head to Khazan. There were some awesome fight footage that he was planning to sell copies of, and the Nexus was just the place to market it. Not that he'd keep all the money. After all, it starred the Avengers. He'd have to open an account for them there so they would get their cut.

Written by Mg_knt04-25-2002 06:14 PM

{Mr. Grimm}

*Mr. Grimm orders the submarine to broadcast depth, he sends a short radio message that basically said Mr. Grimm is ready for any cross dimesional terror assignments.*

Written by Z-man 04-26-2002 08:10 PMor

Z-man took his pokemon out of their balls.

"Alright, I know you're all a bit shaken up," Z-man said to them, "And you should be. I told you not long after catching you that we're playing for higher stakes than most pokemon battles, but you couldn't have really known what that meant until that battle with the Meddler. I've had all of you who died raised from the dead, and if you want to keep fighting with and hanging around me, I can do it again."

Behind him, off in the bushes, a figure crouched, making notes.

His abra is still the weak pokemon that abras are, but primary scans reveal that it's single ability, teleport, has been amped such that it is capable of transporting a small group of people fully loaded almost halfway around the world.

"If you want to get away from this measure of fighting, go. I will not force you to live your life with me if you hate it."

His Dragonite has some cybernetic implants increasing it's flight ability and allowing it to hyperbeam without exhaustion, as well as a safeguard attack that forms a field rather than the typical shield formation.

"Rest assured I wouldn't be asking you to do anything I'm not going to do, and I won't throw your lives away for no good reason."

His Chikorita is basically unchanged, except for some form of safe steroid treatment to increase strength, speed, defense, and all major stats. As well as some solar storage device to allow it easy solarbeaming as well.

"I will only ask you to fight when people's lives or the fate of the universe is at stake, I swear it. If you suspect that I'm not living up to my promise, you may attack me. I would feel insulted if you didn't."

His Hitmonlee can stretch his arms as well as legs, and has the same steroid type treatment Chikorita does.

"Even if you want to come with me, you will never have to do anything you don't want to do."

His Ampharos seems to be covered by a number of devices designed to run off it's natural electricity.

"So, I ask you all to make a choice. You may come with me and live a life of risk, or you may stay here and remain safe."

His other Pokemon are similiarly outfitted, as shown in the attached documents. He is most assuredly the dimension travelr we're looking for. I'll use our new secret weapon to follow him and take his pokemon soon after he leaves this plane, we should be able to follow him wherever he goes, so we may take advantage of his technological advancements as well.

File transmitted, Special agent Domino, out.

It took awhile, but all his pokemon eventually decided to stay. He had always been concerned for their health and happiness, and they had all seen the intense look of relief and grief on his face when they came back to life. They loved him, and they knew he loved them.

With tears in his eyes, Z-man said "Thanks guys, let's go home."

After he left this plane, Domino readied herself, and pulled out a pokeball.

It was nearly a week after the invention of the pokeball that the first voltorb appeared. You see, even the smallest change in situation can lead to a new species fairly easily.

There have been a lot of people traveling into this dimension lately, so the situation had definitely changed.

A small, light red creature came out of the pokeball, and took Special Agent Domino after the fleeing Z-man.

***********

About a day later, Z-man was in the office early, meeting with a client.

"Hello, Mrs. St. Claire, how may I help you?" He asked

"Well," the brunette said carefully, "I want to take a trip to the Power Rangers universe, to meet a ranger or two. Can you help me?"

"Well," he responded, "there's just the small matter of the security screen. It turned up nothing."

"Doesn't that mean I'm allowed to go?"

"I mean there's nothing, no birth records, nothing. Couple that with the fact that Logan St. Claire, the name you've given me, is the name of the evil female duplicate of the dimension traveling Quinn Mallory in the cancelled TV show Sliders," Z-man said. "Which leads me to ask you this: Are you my evil female duplicate? And, if so, what is your evil scheme?"

The lady let out a little laugh.

"You're funny, you know that?" She responded, "And correct. You see, I have a little bit of a plan that requires dimension traveling, and I don't have that power."

"Well that's just too bad, because I don't help the evil, and any attempt to use force to get me to will be met by me retreating into another universe."

"Go ahead," the woman laughed again. "Try."

Z-man tried to leave the plane. "What did you do? What's happening?" he asked.

"I have the power to activate and deactivate the powers of others," she told him, "Sort of a low level mind control. You will only be dimension traveling with me to worlds I tell you, understand?" She laughed again. "Good, because we're leaving now."

Written by Tanith 04-25-2002 08:29 PM

In Washu-chan's lab:

Washu: Here you go Tanith. It's all ready.

Tanith: Thank you Washu. Here are the other stones you wanted.

Washu: No problem. Ah! Lovely... This will be just *perfect* for my next project... (evil laughter)

The Andromeda emerged from the slipstream in the silence of space. She glided into the star system nearby leisurely, before engaging her phase-cloak. Continuing on, she entered into high geosynchronous orbit above the greater landmass that was the northern continent of the planet. Coincidentally, it also left her within almost human visual sight of another spacecraft that orbitted the planet.

On the bridge, Tanith made one more inspection before taking off her VR pilot visor. As she stood from her seat, Jaffa walked into the room.

Jaffa: Hey Tanith? How come I can't get any reception on my HALST communicator?

Tanith: Hm? Oh that. I left the new stealth modes on both ways.

Jaffa: Stealth modes? You mean the new magic sheilding?

Tanith: Yep. Scry blocking, transmission blocking... we're the one of the most invisible ships in the multiverse.

Jaffa: *raises one eyebrow* Huh. Paranoid?

Tanith: After the last two adventure I got dragged into? And ended up more or less in the middle of? I'm not taking any chance. I want some time to relax dangit!

Jaffa: *shrug* If you want. I'm sure the others can handle things.

Tanith: Right. So let's go.

Written by Z-man 04-26-2002 09:40 PM

Time: Shortly after the last post.

Elsewhere in the multiverse, on a spaceship known as the S.S. Friendship, a battle was raging. Its assorted crew of Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins had never been in a real battle before, and Toxica, the mistress of magic, had summoned more than enough putrids to overwhelm them.

Toxica was walking with her new team mate Meowth, every once in awhile taking the time out to fry a Care Bear personally.

"These creatures are so pathetic," Meowth said. "I bet even Jessie and James are doing well."

"Why do you spend time with them if they're no good?" Toxica asked. "Surely someone of your skills could find someone better to team up with."

"The thing about those two is, they need me," Meowth answered. "Why do you hang with that Jindrax guy, even I can tell he's a loser?"

"Tradition," she responded. "He's the master of blades, I'm the mistress of magic, we've bothed served Master Org since the beginning."

"Why did you leave him now to follow this woman?" Meowth asked back.

"She can give me enough power to take down the Power Rangers, of course," Toxica answered. "Once we do that, Master Org won't be upset that we did it without him."

"Yeah, I can see what you mean," Meowth replied. "After she gives us enough power to capture Pikachu, the boss will finally be glad to see us again, and I'll be his favorite pokemon again."

With that, Meowth pounced on Gentle Heart Lamb, and seriously injured it with a scratch attack, and left the Putrids to finish it off.

Meanwhile, on the bridge, Dr. Blight was furiously typing away on her laptop, which was hooked up to the Friendship, as she transferred the security codes to recognize Z-woman as the captain, as well as Blight's special veto, just in case. She was also installing her personal AI, MAL, into the computer system.

Behind her, Z-woman was talking with a bound Z-man.

"So, you used me to recruit the biggest lameasses in the entire multiverse just so you could take over the Care Bear's spaceship," Z-man stated. "What do you want with this thing anyway?"

"My plans haven't concluded yet," Z-woman responded. "This is the most user friendly starship I could find. And I resent you criticising my people. The most powerful villains have nothing I could offer them, so I went with the ones less respected.

"Not to mention," Z-woman continued, "that they all are more powerful than you give them credit. Jindrax and Toxica can provide enough raw power to deal with most heros who come after us. Jessie, James, and Meowth are ideal when it comes to liberating things from their proper owners. Dr. Blight is my tech person. David, though stuck in the form of a rat, is still an ideal spy, and he doesn't know I can't give him his human form back. And Imhotep was the most powerful being I could recruit, with promises of his beloved Ankh-Su-Namun. I'll prove it with our next mission, you'll see."

"Sure, whatever," Z-man dismissed. "I'll believe it when I see it. This ship doesn't even have a tractor beam."

"It does now," Blight yelled back. "I'll have weapons in three minutes."

"Yeah, sure, whatever, too bad I can't transport a spaceship of this size, so it looks like we're stuck taking control of Cares-ville," Z-man responded.

"That's where the next mission comes in, Z," Z-woman said. "Blight, do you want any of these Care Bears for use in your experiments?"

"I'll take one of them," she responded, "Maybe their sickening cuteness could cure my deformity."

"Good, I told Jessie and James to save Brave Heart Lion for just that purpose," Z-woman responded. "So you might want to set one room up as a brig. We'll need it for our guest in awhile."

******

Note:

Jindrax is the Master of Blades from Power Rangers Wild Force. He's a fighter, only, and an idiot.

Toxica is the Mistress of Magic from the same. She's got magical powers, the ability to summon Putrids, and a complex about looking young.

Putrids are also from Wild Force. They're grunts, a lot like putties from the original.

Jessie, James, and Meowth are fairly well known around here.

David was the sixth Animorph, he's a human boy in the body of a rat. He's fairly evil, and decent at spying. He can talk with thought speach, which can be directed at specific people or sent to the surrounding area.

Dr. Blight was a Captain Planet villain, a scientist who continuously uses illegal test subjects for her experiment. She's been hideously scarred by a past experiment, and her ultimate goal is to cure that some how.

"Not when I'm a hostage," he responded, "Let me free, and then I'll stop."

"No," Z-woman responded. "But when you're no longer necessary, you will be in such pain."

"So what are we waiting for?" he asked.

"For the third time," She responded levelly, "The Sliders are coming out around here any minute now. You know that, your own powers told us this. Shut up!"

It was two minutes and five questions later when a blue vortex opened up over them. Three men and a woman fell out of it onto the ground.

"So, Q-ball," the black man said, "How long do we have in this world?"

"Much more than you think," Z-woman responded. She grabbed the timer from Quinn's hand and left the world in a blink of an eye, using Z-man's travel powers.

"Okay," Z-man said in the next world, where all the henchmen waited. "But that won't allow you dimension travel in your spaceship any more than I will."

"That's where this task comes in," She said. Turning to her minions, she asked them, "Has everyone else completed their part of the mission prep?" After some mumbled yes, Z-woman went on. "Then lets do it. Everyone get to your stations!"

*****

It took MAL a minute to crack this governments security passcodes, and the door to he Stargate base was opened easily.

"Remember," Jessie said beneath her disguise, "Give us five minutes to get set up, then go all out."

With Meowth in her backpack, she and James followed David the rat down the hallways of the base. He had been here earlier, and had memorized the layout of the base, so he knew exactly where the Stargate was.

David stayed out of sight from humans other than Jessie and James, and none of the other soldiers payed any attention to the male soldier with the red hair and the female soldier with the blue hair.

"How much further?" James asked when they were alone. "I'm getting tired of carrying these shovels."

{Not much longer} David shot back in thought speach. {It's just in the next room, but we need to wait for the distraction first.}

Almost as if by magic, the klaxons blared as the putrids attacked the base as well. Having been let in by Blight, the putrids required the entire force of this military squad to deal with. Adding Imhotep to the mix had been total overkill.

As the soldiers fought on, Commander Jack O'Neil could see that they were clearly outclassed. It was almost as if the mysterious enemy was toying with them. Suddenly, after a few endless minutes of fighting, the grey figures disappeared, and the Egyptian turned into sand and flew away.

"That's hardly the end of that," He yelled to the troops. "They wanted to keep us busy, nothing else. We need to get to the Stargate, that must be what they wanted!"

He took a small group of soldiers back towards the Stargate. They could tell something was up by the ropes attached to the Stargate, not to mention the strange man, woman, and cat thing attaching those ropes.

"Stop!" He yelled, steping forward. At which point he fell into a hole too large to avoid.

From deep in the hole, he yelled "How did they dig a hole in our metal floors?"

"Special shovels," James told him, from their special vantage point, using the Stargate to shield them from any bullets.

And then the roof exploded and they launched into the Motto. By the time they were finished with it, they were already in the Care Bears universe, installing the Stargate in the back of the SS Friendship. Blight was rigging up the slide timer to project from the back of the ship onto the Stargate. They could use the combined powers of both to send them to alternate dimensions by backing up, and they'd sacrifice none of their maneuverability.

"So," Z-man said nervously, "Now that you don't need me anymore, can I go home?"

"Of course not," Z-woman said, "Now the fun's really starting. You can go to the brig now. Imhotep will show you the way. Oh, and it is teleport shielded, you can't even dimension travel out of there. Have fun."

Later, in the brig, Z-man said the worst words you can say: "Well, at least the worst is over, nothing but uphill from here!"

"Hi, I'm Brave Heart Lion. Looks like we're roomies!"

Written by Tanith 04-26-2002 11:48 PM

Southern Continent, Pern:

Jaffa and Tanith materialized on a sunny beach. They took a moment to savor the gentle sounds of the waves lapping onto the golden shores. Then, almost reluctantly, Tanith took out her scanner and adjusted its readings. Slowly, the two climbed their way onto a small rocky outcropping over the sea.

As they reached a small hollows in the rocks, Tanith leaned forward to look within. Jaffa followed suit, and saw in the dimness a batch of large white eggs. Tanith looked at her readouts again, and then carefully translocated three of the eggs into a small satchel she carried one at a time. When she was done, the two climbed onto the top of the outcropping and sat down.

Jaffa: So these are firelizard eggs?

Tanith: Yep. And almost ready to hatch too, judging by their hardness.

Jaffa: Why three?

Tanith: You'd said you'd prefer a bronze. And I wanted to have two for ease of carrying things around.

Tanith: I'd like to you beam up my satchel please. And put the eggs in that sand nest I've already prepared.

Rommie: (o.c.) Very well.

As the satchel disappeared into the teleporter beam, Tanith and Jaffa stood up as they prepared to climb off. Suddenly, a faire of firelizards appeared out of nowhere, led by a very angry queen. They immediately swarmed toward the two intruders on their nest.

Taken by surprise, Tanith yelped and reflexively jumped back from the attacking fire lizards. She bumped into an equally startled Jaffa, upsetting both their balances and sending them falling off into the lukewarm waters of the ocean.

As they treaded in the water, Jaffa was finally able to activate his invisibility field, hiding the duo from the angry creatures. After a while, the fire lizards seemed satisfied that the intruders have been chased off, and disappeared Between once more.

Sighing a breath of relief, Jaffa released his invisibility field. He turned to look at a slightly chagrined Tanith and raised an eyebrow.

Jaffa: So... Want to go swimming?

Written by Tanith 04-27-2002 11:27 PM

Time: the next day; Place: the Andromeda...

Jaffa peered into the sandbox that stood in the center of the infirmary. Two white eggs lay half buried in the center. He turned back to Tanith, who was dusting the sand off from her latest excursion onto Pern. A small furry pokemon pranced around her feet, as if trying to catch the grains of sand she dusted off.

Jaffa: Was there some reason you switched the other two eggs for this one?

Tanith: I had intended to go with all male fire lizards, because of the problems that females ones have during mating season. But after reviewing the biotech and nanotech procedures Rommie has on file, I changed my mind.

Jaffa: So you got a female? What color?

Tanith: A gold one, of course. *to the pokemon* Calm down Eos.

Eos: Eevee! Eevee! *rubs against Tanith's legs*

Tanith: Restless aren't we? We'll, I suppose I can take you down planetside next time too.

Eos: Eevee!!

Time: Midnight, five days later; Place: Landing, Pern...

Jaffa dropped the invisibility field around himself and Tanith as she entered the main reception room of the AIVAS unit. Staying by the door as a lookout, he absently scratched the forhead of the small bronze colored firelizard that lounged on his forearm.

Meanwhile, Tanith walked up to the large monitor on the far wall of the room, which had lit up as soon as they had appeared. A small gold firelizard was perched alertly on her shoulder.
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Aivas: You and your companion does not conform to standard bio-readings of humans on Pern. And the technology you carry is not recognized by this unit. Who are you and what do you want here?

Tanith: Right on all accounts. We are not native to Pern.

Aivas: *pause* Are you from... Earth?

Tanith: We are. But not the Earth you're referring to. As for why we're here... *smiles* I have a business proposition for you.

Aivas: Elaborate, please. On both accounts.

Tanith: Of course...

Time: Two weeks later; Place: Fort Hold, Pern...

Jaffa and Tanith sat at one of the tables in the Hold Square, watching the musicians from the nearby Harper Hall ply their trade. Jaffa was feeding his firelizard meatrolls from a small plate, which was shared by Eos the Eevee, who lounged on the tabletop. Tanith was nibbling on a serving of bubbly pie, as her firelizard hummed in tune with the musicians.

Suddenly, their communicators beeped, interrupting their relaxation.

Jaffa: *takes out comm* Jaffa here.

Rommie: An urgent matter has come up that requires your attentions.

Tanith: *leans over* We'll be right up Rommie.

Written by Tanith 04-28-2002 12:00 AM

On board the Andromeda:

Jaffa and Tanith, along with their small menagerie, materialized onto the bridge of the Andromeda.

Tanith: *concerned* Did you call us, Rommie?

Rommie: Yes. It seems we have two problems.

Tanith: What happened?

Rommie: For one thing, Zman is out of contact for your regularly scheduled meeting. However, his secretary says that she saw him enter his office... but he never came out.

Tanith: *frowns* That's certainly suspicious...

Rommie: Yes. And his transponder signal is being jammed somehow. I am still in the process of tracing it through the interference.

Jaffa: You suspect foul play.

Rommie: It is the most logical conclusion.

Tanith: *Sighs* So much for a vacation. What's the other problem?

Rommie: I have received an urgent message from HALST. They have an urgent mission that will require all active members. Including Jaffa here.

Jaffa: Did they say what the problem is?

Rommie: No. The transmission was cut off halfway.

Tanith: I see. Well, no help for that. Then let us head to Earth Prime.

Written by The Watcher 04-28-2002 02:13 AM

The Meddler Regroups

In one of his secret lairs, having come straight from his pounding by the Avengers, the Meddler sat and started making plans for the future. Then suddenly an alarm sounded.

Lothos, what is it?

Sensor Nanite 232 has been detected in facility. It has been beamed into a containment cell.

The Meddler cursed. Yet another problem to plague him. He looked up what who was the surveillance subject of Sensor Nanite 232. Hmm, it was Mr. Grimm, aka Shyft. He had probably used some sort of magic to return it. Oh well, two can play at the return game.

He used his clairsentience power to find Mr. Grimm and saw him sleeping (This takes place right after Mr. Grimm went to bed). He then used his power to see the nanite and then opened a small microgate to deposit it back into Mr. Grimm's room. Then, as a precautionary mesure, he selected another sensor nanite and microgated it into another room near Mr. Grimm.

That ought to take care of things. Now to check on the Empire. He went to a console and opened a link via transdimensional transciever, first setting his image inducer to the Emperor image before turning on the visual. The screen turned on and displayed Regent Markul sitting in one of the Palace's briefing chambers.

Regent Markul, what is the current status of my Empire?

Regent Markul: Mostly well, your majesty. The mysterious disappearances have seemed to have fallen into a bit of a lull. However, a number of the forces involved in your expedition "elsewhere" have returned in a state of disarray. Some of them have been raving about all sorts of strange things.

Thank you, Regent Markul. You're confirming just what I thought. You can transmit a more detailed report on the Empire's status now. My computer is now ready to recieve the data.

Regent Markul pushed a few buttons, and a highly encrypted file was transmited across the void between worlds to the Meddler's waiting pocket computer

Thank you Regent. That will be all for now.

The Meddler then walked over to a table of phones and picked up a secure one, then dialed an ultra secret number.

Now to check on UNSCA. Hello Director Alfonse, this is your benefactor. What progress has been made in the Neutralizer Program?....Yes, I see...

And the Meddler carried on, tending to his many resources and operations.

Written by Tanith 04-28-2002 12:14 PM

Meanwhile, the Andromeda appeared out of the void into the Earth Prime dimension. It hovered, under phase cloak, just outside the solar system and began to make scans of the Earth and the space around it.

Tanith: Rommie? Report.

Rommie: There seems to be a large unidentified spacecraft leaving orbit around the Earth. It is being harrassed by many vessels from multiple high tech dimensions we have visited before. HALST is among the pursuers.

Tanith: Huh. And the target is leaving you, you say?

Rommie: Affirmative.

Jaffa: So I guess our help would only be extraneous?

Rommie: It would seem that way. The unidentified craft has now left the solar system and entered FTL. Most of the ships are following. HALST and a few others have returned to Earth orbit.

Tanith: Hmm... Let's do this then. Beam Jaffa on board the Death From Above to find out what happened. And beam me down to Zman's tourism company HQ down on Earth.

Rommie: Affirmative.

Written by Tanith 04-28-2002 01:13 PM

Tanith materialized in front of Planar and Dimensional Travels, Inc. She entered the building and headed to the top floors, where Zman's office was. She stopped at the desk of their secretary, a young telepath super from Earth Prime who took the weekend shifts.

Tanith: Hi Tammy. You want to show me the office?

Tammy: Oh, hello Miss Tanith. This way please.

As they entered Zman's office, Tanith noted that nothing had been changed. A scurtiny of his computer and desktop revealed nothing.

Tanith: Have you contacted our clairsentient allies?

Tammy: I've sent a discreet message to the Watcher, but he is not home at the moment.

Tanith: Hm... probably still busy with the aftermath of our last encounter with the Meddler... What about the security videos? Any clues there?

Tammy: They appear to have been deleted. Quite carefully, I might say.

Tanith: Deleted? We'll see about that. Where are they?

Tammy: Here, ma'am.

Tanith: (over communicator to the Andromeda) Rommie, I'm going to send up a couple of security tapes that have been tampered with. Try and make something of them, willya?

Rommie: (o.c.) Understood. Teleporting....

*tapes disappear*

Tanith: *turns back to Tammy* Did anything unusual occur around the time Z disappeared?

Tammy: *thinks* I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but the ambient mental noises I usually get through my telepathy suddenly stopped for a moment around that time. I'd just thought it was a natural pause or something at the time.

Tanith: Hm... Interesting. Tammy, go bring me the other five pokeballs filed under my name please. I've got a feeling that I might need them.

Tammy: Of course.

As she waited, Tanith looked around the office once more and pondered this new turn of events.

Written by Nobody04-29-2002 04:59 PM

*Nobody sat in the Bridge of his Correlian Corvette*

Ahhhh, I could have taken that alien ship... Oh well, T-DOT!

Yes Sir??

Please hail the flagship of the Spacebattles Fleet. Offer Our congradulations on the victory.

*Nobody glanced down and punched a few buttons on the console in front of him*

Afterwards, head out. Bearing Oh-nine-mark-one-five. Quarter speed.

Yes Sir.

Good, then we can give the D-drive a more *random* test... Along with all other major ship functions.

*Nobody grinned*

Written by Tanith 04-28-2002 01:53 PM

Tanith materialized onto the bridge of the Andromeda. Upon arrival, she handed over her five pokeballs to Rommie, with orders that the pokemon be placed with the one she had just retrieved from Washu-chan.

It was then that Jaffa beamed in, along with someone else. Tanith almost didn't recognize Mg_knt, what with the apparently new nano-tech enhancements glowing through his veins. She was even more surprised by his request.

Tanith: You.... want to join us? *blink* I thought you're working from the government?

Mgknt: I was. *cough* But there was this... incident... involving th A-Team, and I thought it would be best if I take an... extended leave of absense for a while. I can be a bodyguard too.

Tanith: Ooookay. I suppose you can come along. *turns to consol and types some stuff in* Welcome aboard the Andromeda.

Tanith looked back up after entering Mg's info into the Andromeda database to find him and Jaffa eyeing each other. It was a look of rivals sizing each other up for a fight.

Tanith: *sigh* No fighting on board the ship or when you're on the job. If you really want to fight, I'll find you a deserted planet after we find Zman and let you two have it out.

Jaffa and Mgknt: Okay.

Tanith: *rubs temples* Whatever.

Rommie: *re-entering the bridge* I have finished reconstructing the security tapes of Zman's office. Here is the segment I believe you are looking for.

The three humans turned to look at the screen as it displayed the short conversation between Zman and his female double.

Jaffa: Aww no. First Roxy and now her... I hope that's the last of the female doubles that are gonna show up.

Tanith: What about Z's transponder signal? I don't want to have to follow him through every dimension they've been to so far.

Rommie: I have only been able to determine the general area where he might be. We may need to do some searching.

Tanith: Well. It looks like we have no choice but to search the hard way. Until the Watcher responds to my query on his answering machine, anyway. Get me a destination, please Rommie. ...By the way, guys, what's the story with that alien ship we saw leaving Earth just now?

Mg_knt: Unknown. It came out of nowhere and started to advance on Earth. When the supers with vessels in Earth orbit started to attack it, it returned fire.

Jaffa: Yeah. HALST was losing the fight against its sheer firepower when they called me in. But then this fleet comes out of nowhere and helped them beat it down.

Mg_knt: They identified themselves as the Spacebattles Fleet.

Tanith: Spacebattles? As in spacebattles.com debate board? It figures.

Rommie: Here is the closest dimension I can trace Zman to. *hands over printout with picture*

"You know, there's a world populated by small blue creatures called Smurfs," she said. "They should be easy to conquer, and when you boil them you get gold. That could help finance future operations. I think that's a good place."

Written by Mg_knt 04-28-2002 06:07 PM

{Mg}
*Mg sat in the room assigned to him by Rommie, the parts of two Desert Eagles lay before him, carefully he picks up pieces and cleans them. When he picks up a barrel he takes out a small set and attaches a infra red scope on to the barrel.*

Written by Mg_knt

{Mg}
*after putting together his guns he slips clips in them and heads to the practice room to sight in the scopes. He checks in the room picks a target and starts firing adjusting the scope after each shot.*

Written by Tanith 04-29-2002 04:01 PM

In the darkness of space, undetected by any means, the Andromeda entered the Smurfs Universe. She hovered just outside the solar system where the Friendship was, and began an intensive, yet subtle, sensor scan of the system.

The results were ominous. Zman's transponder could be traced to somewhere near the center of the ship, in an area that had been heavily sheilded from teleportation. There were several life form readings also in the ship, along with a few other strange readings. Rommie refused to hack the ships information systems unless things became desperate because it was controlled by a fellow sentient AI.

Sensor scans of the planet the ship was orbiting reveal massive destruction and contamination of one of the forest areas. A more detailed scan was able to reveal match several of the culprits with information in the Andromeda's databases.

Zwoman was there, along with Captain Pollution from the Planeteers Universe, as well as a Meowth that could only be the Team Rocket mascot. The standard Team Rocket pokemon were also there: Wobuffet, Wheezing, Arbok, and Victreebell. The only concern was that Zman's Abra was also there, probably held captive to aid in its captors' plans.

Tanith: Well... Our priority should be to rescue Zman... and his pokemon.

Rommie: We can assume that his other five pokemon are also being held on board the other vessel. One moment... *pauses* ...Sensors have detected the unique signatures of the pokeballs. They are not being kept in a secure area. Do you wish me to transport them here?

Tanith: They might be watched... we need a diversion. And somoe way to get Zman out. I think we're gonna need to board that ship.

Mgknt: Let me. My nano-upgrades are the most ideal for infiltration.

Jaffa: Alone? Are you sure that's a good idea? You don't know what's over there.

Mgknt: *glare* I can handle this myself.

Tanith: *frowns* Rommie? How many of those semi-combat droids you you still have left from our little trip to the Star Wars Universe?

Rommie: 47.

Tanith: Hm... I think I've got an idea.

Written by Mg_knt 04-29-2002 04:31 PM

What is this plan of yours? *grins as it is much easier to get into a place if there is a distraction*

Written by Tanith 04-29-2002 07:47 PM

10 minutes ago...

Tanith took out two of her pokeballs and activated them. With a flash, two pokemon appeared. One resembled a red and blue rubber duckie; it was Porygon 2, the cyber pokemon. The other was a small brown owl, a Hootoot.

Tanith: Cody, Pallas, I have a mission for you two.

The present...

The Andromeda, still hidden from all sensors, hummed with anticipation. On the bridge, Tanith gave Cody the Porygon one last affectionate pat before the plan was set into motion.

0.0000001 seconds: Cody and Mgknt disappeared from the Andromeda.

0.00000015 seconds: Cody materialized on a random control panel in an unoccupied portion of the Friendship. Mgknt also materialized in an unoccupied room.

0.0000002 seconds: two dozen of the semi-combat droids in storage aboard the Andromeda disappeared.

0.0000003 seconds: the droids materialized on board the Friendship, scattered randomly throughout the vessel. Meanwhile, the Andromeda fired up her engines.

0.000001 seconds: with a short FTL hop, the Andromeda appeared right next to the Friendship ("right next" for her meaning between the planet it was orbiting and the next planet in the system.)

0.0000012 seconds: the Andromeda transported Zman's five pokeballs from the Friendship on board.

0.0000015 seconds: the Andromeda began to jam all means of communication, transportation, and sensors in the area surrounding the Friendship.

0.0000017 seconds: Pallas the Hootoot was transported down to the planet surface to an out-of-sight area near Abra.

0.001 seconds: Cody phased into the consol he had landed on, thus entering the computer system of the Friendship.

0.1 seconds: the combat droids become activated.

0.5 seconds: MAL, the AI in control of the Friendship, discovers the intruding droids and tries to sound an alarm. He discovered, to his shock, that there was another entity in the system that was thwarting his efforts.

1 seconds: Mgknt began his infiltration efforts, with finding and retrieving Zman his priority.

Within 10 minutes, the crew aboard the Friendship found themselves locked in combat with the SW droids. They tried to call down to the planet to warn Zwoman, but found their communications and transporters blocked. Blight yelled for MAL, but he was too busy fending for himself in the systems of the Friendship.

Meanwhile, down on the planet, Abra's normally closed eyes suddenly snapped open. He tilted his head a few inches and seemed to peer off into nothingness.

"Aaabra?" it whispered, almost as if a query.

Only the howling of the wind answered him. But in those howls, there seemed to be a distant, or perhaps merely faint, hooting sound. Whatever it is, Abra seemed to lose interest after listening for a while. As Meowth turned around to check up on the psyonic pokemon, he saw nothing but Abra's normal sleep-like state.

When he turned around however, Abra's closed eyes cracked open a slit again. His eyes glowed faintly, with an emotion that Meowth might had identified with rage.

Written by Mg_knt 04-29-2002 08:00 PM

*Mg exits the rooms looking left to right for cameras, seeing none he walks down the corrider slowly on the watch for any robots or other beings that could give him away.*

Written by Z-man 04-29-2002 10:44 PM

Meanwhile, in the brig:

Z-man sat in the brig, listening to Brave Heart Lion as he went on and on and on and on.

Finally, Z-man interrupted. "So, let me see if I've got this down. They slaughtered your friends and took you captive in order to perform horrific experiments on you, and you think they just need someone to show that he cares about them? You plan to defeat them by showing you the power of love?"

"Yes."

"That's..."

"-inspirational?" Brave Heart Lion suggested.

"No, annoying as hell," Z-man responded.

*****

After having harvested a colony of Smurfs, still alive, for cloning purposes, Z-woman tried to radio up to the ship.

"I knew that from the start!" Z-woman yelled back. "All I want is for them to do it with as little damage as possible! Abra, you're taking us back up to the ship!"

Abra, however, didn't do anything.

"Do it!" she yelled, slapping the pokemon, who fell out of her hands and onto the ground. Abra began shaking. What's more, Abra began glowing.

Soon the glow covered Abra's entire body, and it began warping in strange ways. He became taller, more awake, and stronger.

Abra became Kadabra.

Kadabra had a mind shield up the moment it came out, and it was pissed. A TK blast knocked Z-woman back.

*****

Back on the ship, a putrid squad had encountered Mg Knt. While they had been destroyed quite easily, the security system had recorded the event and it was known that an invisible enemy was on the ship.

"Damn!" Blight yelled, "The heroes must be rescuing the hostage! Imhotep, get into sand form and make him visible now!"

Imhotep left from shattering Star Wars droids, and Jindrax and hordes of Putrids summoned by Toxica, who was exhausting herself matching the output, took his place. Jessie and James were in combat suits designed by Blight, shooting corroding gas at them.

Imhotep turned into a sandstorm and stormed down the hallways of the Friendship. He encountered the invisible Mg Knt and swirled around him, making his form visible to everyone on the ship. The Putrids began to swarm over the now noticeable form of Mg Knt.

Written by Mg_knt 04-29-2002 10:59 PM

*Mg turns on his bullet proof skin as the putrid's swarm him, their punches and kicks don't even phase him.. He walks through the swarm of putrids hacking and slashing with the Dragon's Tooth. He finally gets to an internet radio port. He uses his own radio implant to upload Helios into the Friendships systems. He then sets up a Wall of Fire around him to keep Imhotep and any putrids away.*

Now to wait till Helios takes control of the ship defense systems.

Written by Z-man 04-29-2002 11:14 PM

Noticing the putrids were useless, Blight ordered Jindrax into corridor. He was quite a bit more powerful than the putrids, he should deal some real damage.

Written by The Watcher 04-29-2002 10:14 PM

The Watcher Checks in

Having finished with his business in Khazan, The Watcher gated back to his place on Earth. After he unpacked and put away his souvineers, he went to check his messages.

"Ziggy, anyone call me while I was away?"

You have 15 calls, including a high priority message from Miss Tanith.

"High Priority? Hmmm, play it back."

The Watcher listened to Tanith's message.

Written by Tanith 04-29-2002 11:02 PM

Message on the Watcher's answering machine:

Answering Machine: Message number 7. At time index 12.47.10

Hi Watcher, this is Tanith. It seems Zman got kidnapped recently by another of his doubles. A female double, in fact, by the name of Zwoman. We're trying to track him down now, but it might be a while. And heavens know what she's planning to use him for... So take a peak for us would you? Any information on the enemy right now would be nice. All we know right now is that she's got the power to control other people's powers.

As always, I can be contacted via Rommie. Her newest cloaks might also block clairsentience, but I'm sure Thor's little gift will allow you and only you to get through.

Call back soon!

Written by The Watcher 04-29-2002 11:09 PM

After listening to Tanith's message, the Watcher reached out with his clairsentience and saw Zman in a cell with Braveheart Lion. Those fiends, he thought, torturing a man like that. He then used his powers to find the Andromeda. He was about to gate to it, but he decided to be polite and ask first. He went to his transdimensional tranciever and sent a message.
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"This the Watcher. Permission to come aboard."

Written by Tanith 04-29-2002 11:28 PM

Inside the Friendship's computer system:

The battle waged on between MAL and Cody the Porygon 2, both worse for wear from the fighting. Bits and bytes were hurled as weapons; binary notation as ammo; protocols and networks as the setting...

...and it was into this electronic chaos that Helios came into awareness. With a quick scan of the memory files of the distracted MAL, Helios knew who his enemy was. He was intrigued by the fellow AI-like creature fighting this evil terrorist, but now was not the time to inquire. His fellow crimefighter needed help. And with that, Helios made himself known.

Meanwhile, in the midst of his battle with Cody, MAL suddenly sensed the intrusion of another AI mind. He was barely able to bring up his defenses before Helios attacked.

MAL: Who... who are you?

Helios: I am... ICARUS.

As Helios began to pound on the weakened and inferior MAL, Cody took the chance to slip away. It's relief had finally arrived; and it could now move onto the second part of its mission. Surfing along the systems of the Friendship, it quickly found the map for the brig that held Zman, and deactivated the security protocols that held it.

Then, it materialized momentarily in front of the brig door and unleashed a Tri Attack. The energy attack froze the hard plastic door of the brig and melted it, revealing Zman and his "roomie" within.

Z-man: (running out of the room) Thank god!! I couldn't take it anymore with this... this... argh!

Brave Heart Lion: (to Cody) Oh! Aren't you sooo adorable!

If a cyber pokemon could shudder, Cody would have. Instead, it merely glided to Z-man's feet and tapped him with it's "beak".

Somewhere nearby and far away, the Andromeda received a prearranged signal. It seems that Cody had accomplished the primary objective first. With a flicker of her e-thought, the Andromeda locked onto the signal of Z-man and Cody and beamed them aboard from the Friendship.

Brave Heart Lion: (looking around and finding himself all alone) Aww, gee....

Written by Tanith 04-29-2002 11:48 PM

While the last scene was occuring...

Tanith absently bit her lips as she sat on the pilot's seat on the bridge of the Andromeda. She could hear Jaffa pacing around the bridge behind her. She hated the anticipation that came from waiting, and she could tell Jaffa did also. Rommie's calm patience, however, calmed her somewhat, and she was quite thankful for the AI avatar.

Suddenly, Rommie tilted her head as if sensing something. Tanith turned to look at her as Jaffa stopped pacing in midstep.

Rommie: Cody has succeeded in the primary mission.... And the Watcher requests entrance.

Tanith: Granted!

Immediately, Z-man and Cody materialized on the bridge. With a happy cry, Tanith jumped up to greet her sometime business partner, then hugged the slighly battered Cody close to examine its injuries.

At the same time, the Watcher stepped through a man-sized gate onto the bridge also. He was surprised to see Z-man also there, but recovered from his surprise quickly.

After a small administration of the standard pokemon healing draught, Cody was well again. Still, Tanith sent him to rest in the holo-suit/room on the Andromeda kept especially for pokemon.

It was then that the small group got down to business.

Written by The Watcher 04-30-2002 05:40 AM

The Watcher listened to the summary of events so far.

You have Mg_knt over there fighting on the ship? I thought he was working for the government.

The Watcher used his uncanny senses to find Mg_knt and see what was happening to him.

"Hmmm, he's fighting some sort of sword guy."

Written by Mg_knt 04-30-2002 04:07 PM

*Mg puts his sword away as Jindrak advances. Jindrak stops about ten feet away and starts to wave his sword around to intimadate Mg. Mg simply draws a Desert Eagle .50 and starts unloading on Jindrak.*

Written by Tanith 04-30-2002 06:36 PM

Kadabra was able to get a few good hits in on Z-woman before her allies closed in. The newly evolved pokemon might have been able to handle one or two opponents, but the combined efforts of Captain Pollution, Meowth, and the Team Rocket pokemon quickly wore him down.

High up in the Andromeda, Z-man winced from his clairsentient vision as Kadabra was mauled my Meowth's slashes.

Z-man: Let's hurry. Please.

Tanith: Rommie?

Back down on the planet, Captain Pollution dove down for another attack at Kadabra, only to be slammed back by some invisible force. By the time he recovered from the blow, he found himself on the other side of the continent. He hovered in the air, trying to get his bearings so he could head back. Little did he know that he was very lucky indeed to be let off so easily by the Andromeda's effector.

Meanwhile, Meowth and his pokemon also disappeared from the battle, some while in mid-attack. They materialized in another forest elsewhere on the continent, scattered somewhat loosely around.

This just left Z-woman (and David) facing off against a slightly weakened, but still determined Kadabra.

On board the Andromeda, Tanith, Jaffa, and Z-man disappeared from the bridge. Leaving the Watcher and Rommie to look after both battles raging below them and on the Friendship.

Written by Tanith 04-30-2002 08:50 PM

Meowth roamed through the forest, looking for his other companions. He was sure that it was Kadabra that transported him away, which meant he wouldn't have been teleported very far.

Suddenly, he saw a non-descript smurf in front of him. Thinking that he might as well make his little trip a productive one, Meowth leapt at the smurf. Unsurprisingly, the smurf immediately turned and ran, with Meowth close at its heels. Just as Meowth was about to slash at the defensless smurf...

THUMP!

Tanith peered over the edge of the pit that Meowth had fallen into. The feline pokemon was knocked out. The smurf that Meowth had been chasing trotted up next to her. With a slight shimmer, the illusion field around it disappeared, revealing Eos the Eevee.

Eos: Eeeeevee?

Tanith: Ah, poetic justice.

Eos: Eevee!

Taking out a pokeball, Tanith threw it into the hole. With a flash, Meowth disappeared into it. Then, after translocating the pokeball into her hands, Tanith activated its recall switch, which teleported it back to the Andromeda.

Meanwhile, on the Andromeda the Watcher tried to keep watch on everyone, shifting his senses from one subject to the next. Seeing that Captain Pollution was about to fly back, he decided to distract him to keep him from reentering the fight.

Opening a hand sized gate, he fired a phaser blast through it, hitting the super villain from behind. As the avatar of pollution swung around to see nothing there, another blast hit him from below.

"I should be able to keep him busy until Zman can do his thing."

Written by Mg_knt 04-30-2002 10:48 PM

*MAL was getting pounded each defense he put up this Icarus found a hole in. It didn't take long before MAL was completely out of resources and Icarus was victorious. MAL screamed as Icarus started rewriting his programming turning MAL into another copy of Helios. Helios started turning the ships defensives on the Putrids.*

Written by Z-man 04-30-2002 11:28 PM

Unfortunately for Helios, MAL had already been downloaded into Dr. Blight's laptop the minute it was apparent that he would lose. All that Helios was fighting now was a feedback loop meant to replace MAL after leaving.

Unfortunately, MAL also triggered another program before leaving. The D-reaper. Long ago designed to eliminate any computer program that exceeded it's original parameters.

Helios, being an AI, was able to think, which allowed it to exceed more parameters than the D-reaper was used to.

And now it was spreading, eating all data from Helios that it could get to. The most powerful data in the Digimon universe could not escape the D-reaper, Helios had little to no chance.

*******

Jindrax's sword was making a flurry of motion as it deflected every bullet fired. Not that it mattered, seeing as how a wall of fire is known to obscure aim quite well.

Imhotep, meanwhile, was unaffected by fire, especially in sand form. He reformed into human shape, and used his TK to hold Mg Knt over his own wall of fire. With no purchase or anything really to maneuver away from the fire, he couldn't do anything but wait as he was slowly roasted alive.

*******

Jaffa paused, looked around, briefly wondered how he had shown up here when the last thing he remembered was going to Earth to deal with some HALST problem. He surveyed the situation.

What he didn't notice was the rat huddled in the bushes near him. David noticed the strange imprint of two feet on the tall grass, and he could smell a human scent from there.

In a bit of thought speach directed at Z-woman only informed her of what was going on. Z-woman smiled.

"It's too bad that I have to reveal this now," she said.

Kadabra brought back up his shield against physical attacks, but that didn't matter, as Z-woman took off at the maximum speed allowable by thread rules, and had found Jaffa in ten seconds and began hitting him as fast and as hard as she could.

A bolt of red light shot out of his stomach and hit Captain Pollution. The Care Bear Stare, even performed by one of the cousins, can cut through any bad mood, even the most extreme hate. Captain Pollution was made of hate. After the Stare had ended, there was nothing left.

While this was going on, Z-man activated the emergency transport beacon he had brought from Rommie. He was teleported up there before the Stare had ended, leaving Brave Heart Lion all alone to wonder why Captain Pollution wasn't there anymore.

Written by Mg_knt 04-30-2002 11:49 PM

{Helios}
*As the D-reaper tried to eat Helios core, all traces of Helios vanished. The D-reaper was mystifed then it suddenly became aware that Helios was merging with it, unfortunetly it was too late to stop or destroy Helios.*

{Mg}
*Mg turned on his regeneration as soon as he was put over the fire. Mg dropped the gun he was firing and tossed out a LAM between Imhotep and Jindrax. He was sure he could take the force of the blast as the LAM was not close enough to totally destroy his body. The LAM explodes with enough force to blow up a tank sending Mg flying away from it and doing damage to the surronding area*

Written by Z-man 05-01-2002 12:12 AM

The D-reaper was incapable of worry, but that doesn't matter. All the data that was Helios was being eaten up by the D-reaper, and the attempt to merge was no more effective than any other attempt to destroy the D-reaper had been. As the red blob that was the D-reaper's most visible form came into contact with the portions of Helios attempting to merge, the blobs continued, but Helios did not.

There was no stopping the D-reaper. It would go on to eat Helios and all the enhancements put in the Friendship's software. All that would be left were the transporters, the impulse, the warp, and the dimension gate hardware, which had never been hooked up to the computer system to begin with.

Nothing could stop the D-reaper, which is why it was only kept in the system in the case of computer invasion. It was a self destruct for their computer systems. There was nothing left to do but reverse thrust and go through the Stargate to a world with another spaceship. But first, Blight wanted the crew on the planet back up.

*******

After the blast, the wall of fire was gone. Jindrax pulled himself off the ground, mad now. Imhotep had been immortal for a really long time, and invincible for a shorter while. If he hadn't absorbed all four of the jars, the blast might have set him back awhile, but he was a full mummy now. He hadn't been able to see Mg Knt be blown away, but he kept the levitation up the entire time. Mg Knt was flying through the air, virtually frictionless, until Imhotep brought a telekinetic force equivalent to a brick wall in his place.

"It looks like he's got some regenerative power," Jindrax told Imhotep. "Hold his arm out, I'd like to see if he has limits. What about lost limbs?"

******

Toxica was impatient. She had fried far too many droids, and summoned far too many putrids. She needed some variety. She needed to make a giant monster while she still could.

"Hmmm," she thought to herself, "we can't teleport down there with technology, but when has that hampered a magician like me? What could be the harm in trying?"

Written by Mg_knt 05-01-2002 12:31 AM

{Helios)
*Seeing no way to escape Helios crashed the whole ships computer. Every system on board went down in less then a second.*

{Mg}
*As Mg was pinned againist the wall his mana reset. Playtime was over. Summoning up some mana he cast Incinerate on Jindrax. Jindrax felt an incredible heat in his body and felt fire burning outwards. The heat kept increasing as it seemed to Jindrax that his insides were combusting.*

Written by The Watcher 05-01-2002 06:15 AM

Seeing that Zman had taken care of Captain Pollution, The Watcher turned his attention toward Mg_knt to check on how he was doing. He saw the ex-soldier being double-teamed by Imohotep and some guy with a sword.

"Mg_knt may be in trouble, Rommie. He can probably hurt the other guy, but Imhotep can't be injured physically. I better get something to deal with him."

He then used his clairsentience to locate something he knew would send Imhotep fleeing in fear.

In the corridor as Imhotep watched Mg_knt try to combust Jindrax he was taken by surprise as a huge weretiger landed on top of him, knocking him to the ground. It did not look happy to be there, and roared at the immortal Egyptian angrily.

"Well, he's afraid of cats, and a cat's a cat. And it ought to be tough enough to survive the other stuff onboard."

Written by Tanith 05-01-2002 11:21 AM

(Note: mental communication are in {} braces.)

Tanith peered through the foliage at the blue amorphous pokemon moving in the small clearing. Wobbufet was the last of the Team Rocket pokemon that she needed to catch, as well as the most difficult. Checking her scanner (with inbuilt pokedex database) on last time, she activated the subcutaneous neural communicators between her and her pokemon.

She winced for a moment as she heard the report from Pallas the Hootoot on Jaffa's plight, and could only hope that he could hold out against Z-woman's speed blitz long enough for help to arrive. But first, she needed to punish the little rat that took away Jaffa's advantage of surprise. With a mental order to Pallas, she turned her attention back to the fight once more.

Oblivious to its hunters, the Wobbufet continued its leisurely movement.

Tanith: {Eos... Confusion.}

From under the covers of another set of foliage, Eos's thought back it's assent. The Eevee's form blurred, then enlarged, before reforming into that of an.... Espeon. Silently, the transformed Eos let out a psychic beam that struck Wobbufet head on.

Caught by surprise, the Wobbufet was unable to turn back the attack before it fell to the confusion caused by the attack. That was plenty of time for Tanith to move to the next step of the attack.

Tanith: {Tachi... Slash Blitz.}

From the surrounding forest, a dark gleaming blur shot out from its leafy cover and slammed into the Wobbufet. The blur seemed to swarm around the blue pokemon, totally overwhelming it. Finally, with a thump, Wobbufet fell to the ground, unconscious and covered with long slash-marks. The blur stopped, and was revealed to be a gleaming Scizor with a proud look on its face.

Quickly, Tanith tossed out another pokeball to catch the defeated Wobbufet. Again, she activated the recall signal on it once more, sending it back to Rommie.

**********

Meanwhile, back near the one-way fight between Jaffa and Z-woman, Kadabra took the small distraction to catch its breath. Meanwhile, David stayed far away from the fray, laughin to itself as Jaffa got pounded on. His laughter was suddenly cut off as something invisible seized him and carried him upwards.

He tried to send a mental mind call to Z-woman for rescue, but before he got a word off, he was massively disoriented by some kind of mental mindblast. By the time he got his bearings back, he found himself held by a claw against a tree branch and facing a very annoyed Owl pokemon.

Pallas the Hootoot stared at its prey, and decided it was getting hungry....

Written by Z-man 05-01-2002 01:13 PM

Concentrating, Kadabra put down his his shield in order to better focus his TK. He lifted both the bruised Jaffa and the incredibly fast Z-woman up into the air. Though her feet couldn't move her while she was in midair, Z-woman continued to punch Jaffa until Kadabra managed to push them away from eachother.

Z-woman pulled a Star Trek brand phaser out of her pocket and aimed it at Kadabra. Fortunately, Jaffa pull it out of her hands with his TK before she could get a shot off.

On the planet, the tide of battle had just changed completely.

Written by Mg_knt 05-01-2002 10:48 PM

{Mg}
*Jindrax, realizing he was alone and could be hurt, turned tail and ran down the hallway as fast as he could. Mg chased after Jindrax he takes out and turns on his Dragon's Tooth.*

"Come back here you coward. Your just making me more angry now that I have to chase you."

Written by Tanith 05-01-2002 10:57 PM

Just as she returned her pokemon into her pokeballs, Tanith's scanner alarm went off. Looking at her readings, she found that one of the life forms from the Friendship had just transported down nearby. Since there was no chance that any technology that Z-woman has could have broken through Rommie's jamming, the newcomer must be some sort of magic user.

Quietly, she crept forward, with the stealth mode of her gelsuit set on "high". Gradually, she was able to hear the steps and the cursing of another female voice. Peering through the foliage, she see saw her target. A short search through Rommie's databases via her scanner revealed the person to be Toxica, a Power Ranger villainess.

Tanith stopped to think. This may take a bit more work than Team Rocket's pokemon.

**********

Now that Z-woman's superspeed had been neutralized, Jaffa was able to regain his bearings. However, Z-woman was able to do the same, and retaliate.

Suddenly, the area all around Kadabra flashed into flame, startling the pokemon into dropping its charges. Jaffa caught himself in him and used his TK to move himself into the air in order to avoid being blitzed again.

To his horror, Z-woman did the same; apparently with similar telekinesis-like powers. There was a smug smile on her face.

Z-woman: Low level Pheonix powers. Let's see you beat *this*.

**********

Tanith leaped out of the way of another magic blast from Toxica. She was beginning to tire, but at least the villainess was worse for wear by her sneak attack and susequent efforts. Six pokemon surrounded Toxica on all sides, a few singed here and there, but all still able to fight. And they had also managed to keep Toxica from growing to large size as Power Ranger characters were wont to do.

From her connection to Pallas the Hootoot, Tanith became aware of Jaffa and Kadabra's dire circumstances. She needed to end this quickly. It was time to try out the new unorthodox attacks her pokemon have been trained in.

Tanith: {Cody... Psybeam Barrage! Keep her busy!}

Immediately, the Porygon 2 began to send out psybeams, one after the other like a semi-automatic rifle. Toxica, having no special defenses to psychic attacks, was hard pressed to dodge them. Those that struck her also dazed her, giving her no chance to return fire.

Tanith: {Leilani... Stun Powder! Tachi... Whirl-wing!}

With those commands, her Bellosom immediately released a cloud of mind-influencing powder. At the same time, Tachi the Scizor began to flap his metallic wings at supersonic speed, aiming them exactly so as to generate a whirlwind directly on the cloud of stun powder to blow them onto Toxica. Before long, the villainess was choking and staggering in place.

Tanith: {Eos... Triple Attack!!}

With a blur, the Eeveon (new word to describe the hybrid pokemon that Eos is) changed into Vaporeon. Toxica staggered back from the wave of water that flooded over her. Before she could recover from the stun powder that had also been washed away, Eos had already changed into Jolteon. A thundershock immediately followed, which dealt double damage to Toxica due to the water on and around her. Finally, Eos finished the coup 'd grace with a flamethrower attack in its Flareon form.

Needless to say, this triple combination of attacks left Toxica a near unconscious pile on the ground.

**********

Back at the fight with Z-woman, Jaffa has hard pressed to keep his telekinetic shield up against the veritable superspeed barrage of energy and TK attacks from Z-woman. His only saving grace was that he had extensive training in keeping his sheilds up against Ramz's chi blasts when he trained in HALST. Kadabra, too, was not ignored in Z-woman's efforts.

However, by the combined efforts, Jaffa and Kadabra were able to slowly force Z-woman into place with their TK. However, both were straining their utmost to both block her powerbolts *and* keep her from rushing at them. And thus could not attack.

Even more problematic, they could not keep their efforts up forever, and were already beginning to strain from their exertions.

**********

Tanith looked at Toxica, uncertain what to do with her. She was uncertain that a pokeball would have the power to hold her, and even more uneasy about keeping her prisoner. Personally killing another living being, no matter how evil, was something that she simply could not bring herself to do.

Fortunately, it seemed that luck was with her (or perhaps not, depending on one's perspective), for another newcomer entered the clearing where the battle had been fought.

Brave Heart Lion: Hi there!

Tanith: *wince* Um... hi.

BHL: Oh look! She's one of those folks from before who really need to learn about LOVE!...

...And Toxica shared the same fate that her erstwhile colleague, Captain Pollution had shared.

Tanith stared at the spot where Toxica had been with mixed feelings. She turned her attention to BHL (in horror) as the care bear approached her. Before it could say anything, though, Cody sensed its mistress's distress and teleported it away.

Tanith: Thanks Cody. Now let's see about the others!

**********

Back at the fight with Z-woman, Jaffa and Kadabra where near the end of their endurance. They had, however, suceeded in forcing Z-woman to a complete stop in midair, leaving her unable to move at all. The impasse, however, could not last, and both man and pokemon worried about the aftermath.

They were surprised however, when a rat appeared out of nowhere in midair and dropped into the back of Z-woman's collar. Like any normal woman, Z-woman screamed as the critter crawled around in the back of her shirt.

Just at this moment, Jaffa and Kadabra's endurance ran out, and Z-woman was released from their TK imprisonment. Instead of immediately attacking them, though, Z-woman fell to the ground and began to writhe around, desperately trying to get the rat out of her shirt.

Thus distracted, she was easily vulnerable to further attack, and Jaffa immediately ended the fight with a well placed TK blow. As he stood over the unconscious Z-woman, a rat slipped back out of her collar. It tried to escape but was suddenly seized, again, by an invisible claw. The air over the rat suddenly shimmered, and the invisibility field disappeared to reveal Pallas the Hootoot, who had a very smug look on its face.

Rolling his eyes, Jaffa spoke into his communicator. Moments later, the small group was beamed up to the Andromeda.

Written by Tanith 05-02-2002 01:45 AM

Jaffa, Tanith, and Z-man all regrouped on the Andromeda, along with Mg_knt, who was also beamed back from the Frienship. It seemed the problem on the planet has been neutralized. Now all that remains is the group on the Friendship.

After a bit of discussion, a consensus was reached. First of all, Rommie reached out and teleported the remaining human sensor readings into separate rooms in the brig. Dr. Blight's computer, which contained MAL, was then removed from her.

This just left Imhotep on board the Frienship.

Written by The Watcher 05-02-2002 12:18 PM

Imhotep's Good Fortune

While Mg_knt chased after Jindrax, Imhotep and the weretiger were having a mutally frustrating battle. Frustrating to the weretiger because nothing he did could hurt the wyrm spawn, and frustrating to Imhotep because even at full strength he felt some residual fear of cats, and thus wasn't using his powers effectively.

Then suddenly the creature he was fighting was gone. Not only that, but the sounds of Mg_knt and Jindrax fighting were also gone. Searching the entire "skybarge", Imhotep discovered that no one else was on board. He was uttely alone.

At this, Imhotep smiled. He had offered his aid to Z-Woman because she promised to reunite him with his lost love. He was getting impatient with waiting for her to fulfill that promise. But now with this amazing vessel to himself, he could learn its world sailing secrets, and go to the afterlife himself. And once his beloved was at his side, together they would go forth and conquer all worlds, and rule as Pharoh and Queen.

Written by The Watcher 05-02-2002 12:32 PM

Strategy Session

On the bridge of the Andromeda the heroes from Earth discussed what they should do about the remaining denizen of the Friendship.

Tanith: We have to deal with Imhotep somehow. We can't just leave him on the ship. He might eventually learn how to fly it, and then he'd be able to terrorize the multiverse.

Mg_knt: Why don't we just blow it up?

Jaffa: Because that wouldn't kill him, and he'd likely fall down to the planet. Which means he'd eventually conquer it.

Z-Man: Well, I'm not sure what we can do. He is immune to all physical damage. Maybe we can teleport him somewhere else.

Tanith: And dump our problem on someone else. No, he's crossed us, so we should figure out how to deal with him.

Watcher: Guys, I've got an idea.

They all turn to look at the Watcher.

Watcher: Even with all four jars and the power it gives him, Imhotep is basically a spirit inhabiting a corpse, right?

Z-Man: Yeah, that's right.

Watcher: So in a way, you could say he's a type of ghost.

Jaffa: Yes, I guess you could.

Watcher: Well, if that's the case, I know exactly how to deal with him. Tanith, when you upgraded the Andromeda did you install more esoteric sensors? You know, more metaphysically oriented?

Tanith: Yup. I got Washu to install sensors to detect and analyze any concievable phenomenae.

Watcher: Good. All I need is to gate in the equipment we need and we'll be all set. Now here's what we'll do...

And as they listened to his idea they began to smile.

Written by The Watcher 05-02-2002 01:01 PM

Wrapping Up The Mummy
As Imhotep studied the great wheel Z-Woman called a Stargate, he felt it was only a matter of time before he mastered its power. From the look of it, it was of ancient Egypt, like himself. He could even read the hieroglyphics on it, though it was a dialect even older than him. Probably created by some Pharoh's pet wizard. No matter, he was the master of rites and rituals. He should be able to master the creation of a lesser mystic. And then the universe would be his.

Suddenly, from behind him he heard strange sounds and he swung around to look. It was the prisoner, along with three others, all with strange rods in their hands and packs on their backs. Probably more of those strange weapons called guns which had been used to no effect on him before.

Imhotep: Mortal fools! Don't you know that no man can harm me! I am the Living Death! A walking plague of Egypt that no weapon forged of man can slay!

At this the four figures looked at each other and smirked. Then they raised their "guns" and fired. Bright orange yellow streams of energy lanced out and struck the confident mummy, surprising him with a most painful sensation.

Watcher: Yeah, but bet you never messed with anyone with a positron glider before!

As the four continued to pour on the juice, they could see Imhotep's spirit slowly being torn from his physical form. He wasn't a normal ghost, so default proton pack settings might not have worked, but thank's to Rommie's sensors they were able to set the frequencies to resonate with the unique signiture of Imhotep's spirit. Now his spirit strugged futilely as it was ripped from the source of all his mystic might, the body created by the four jars.

Tanith: Got the trap ready?

Z-Man: Got it!

Z-Man tossed the ghost trap toward the struggling high priest, while Jaffa, Tanith, and the Watcher used their packs to maneuver Imhotep's soul over it.

Jaffa: Be careful! Don't cross the streams!

Watcher: I know! You don't have to tell me that!

Tanith: He's over the trap, Z-man! Are you ready?

Z-man: Yeah! On the count of three! One, two, three!

At this Z-man triggered the trap, while the others shut off their streams and let the former mummy be sucked into the device.

Imhotep: Nooooooooooo!

Watcher: Well, that takes care of that. It's Miler time!

And the four left the Friendship, taking the trap and the physical remains with them to be disposed of properly.

Written by Tanith 05-02-2002 01:36 PM

Still in the Smurfs Universe, the Andromeda hovered in the seeming emptiness of space.

Tanith: We're here.

Rommie: This black hole is suitable for our purposes.

Z-man: Good. I want to see that mummy floating in the emptiness of space. Forever.

With that, the Andromeda teleported the physical remains of Imhotep to the very brink of the event horizon of the black hole they were orbitting. There, it would take an infinite amount of time before it finally reached the center of the singularity.

Once they were done, the small group headed back, with the Friendship in tow.

Their first stop was the pokemon world, where Team Rocket was handed over to Officer Jenny to deal with.

Their second stop was the Planeteer world, where Dr. Blight and MAL were dropped off to the authorities there.

Their next stop was Khazan, where the Friendship was sold off as quickly as possible for a reasonable price. They also dropped off Z-woman to the local supers prison, on the charges of killing, kidnapping, and trying to take over the world(s).

Finally, they returned to Earth Prime. Where Mg_knt was dropped off in Iran by his request, and Watcher returned to his own home.

Meanwhile, Tanith and Z-man decided to have their regular meeting regarding their interdimensional traveling business on board the Andromeda.

Written by Tanith 05-02-2002 04:09 PM

Two continuity fixes:

1. Chief Defender, from the Meddler story arc, had been dropped off on an alternate anime universe where he can't do any harm.

2. Mg_knt killed Jindrax while on the Friendship, and now keeps his sword as a trophy.